Answered on 23rd May '24

Treatment for keratoconus depends upon the severity of your ailment and its progression. Usually, two approaches are deployed to handle keratoconus: slowing down the progression and increasing your vision.

 

If your keratoconus is mild or moderate, then depending on the extent of distortion and blurriness you experience, only lenses will be enough for managing your ailment:

• Hard contact lenses: Lenses that are rigid and don't change shape, they can accommodate your cornea.
• Soft contact lenses: Lenses that adjust according to your cornea in early stages.
• Hybrid contact lenses: Lenses with rigid center and soft outter rings.
• Piggyback lenses: hard lenses on top of soft, if rigid ones are too uncomfortable but if the shape of your cornea is progressively changing.
• Scleral lenses: unlike other lenses, they rest on the white part, so they spread over cornea without even touching it.

You can also go for corneal collagen cross-linking therapy, if your condition is progressively getting worse, and after that continue to wear lenses so as to manage this disease.

It prevents further change in corneal shape by saturating cornea with riboflavin eyedrops and treating it with ultraviolet light.

 

If your condition has become extreme, then cornea transplant surgery will be the final resort.

It can result in complications such as graft rejection, degenerated vision, infection and astigmatism. Astigmatism can be managed by wearing hard contact lenses however.

 

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